The learning platform behind Egypt's independent teachers
One multi-tenant platform for Thanaweya Amma (Egyptian secondary) students: video lectures, exams, AI grading of written answers and encrypted offline viewing. Every teacher runs a branded platform on our infrastructure.
- Multi-tenant
- AI grading
- Encrypted offline video
- 8,500+Registered students
- 1,500+Active in the last 30 days
- 2,300+Paying students
- 30,000+Hours of lectures watched
3.4×490 → 1,702
Real students, using it every day
From launch in August 2025 to 8,500+ registered students. The big number compares September, the start of the Egyptian school year, with the September before. Production numbers, as of October 2026.
Students in all 27 governorates
8,500+ registered students from every one of Egypt's 27 governorates — from Alexandria on the coast to Aswan in the far south.
- Alexandria2,502
- Cairo909
- Giza830
- Asyut570
- Minya456
- Sohag454
- 420,000+
- Exam answers submitted
- 23,000+
- Lecture completions
- 300+
- Video lectures
Data as of October 2026
Every teacher gets their own branded platform
11 teachers run on one codebase and one backend. Each teacher gets a complete product on day one; we ship a feature once and every teacher gets it.
Minology — Yasmina El-Behnasawy
minology.drone-academy.online
Al-Qaysar — Ahmed Yousef
ahmed-yousef.drone-academy.online
Not an agency that builds a site and leaves
Every teacher runs on the same platform Drone Academy runs on every day. One codebase, one backend: when we ship, every tenant gets it.
Branded site
Their own subdomain, name and identity, served from our shared platform.
Student app
Video lectures, homework and progress for every enrolled student.
Exams
Timed exams with automatic and AI-assisted grading.
Payments
Students pay for lectures and courses inside the platform.
Analytics
Watch time, completion and exam results per student.
Teacher app
Upload, schedule and grade from the phone.
Built in-house, running in production
We are a product and engineering company, not an agency. These are systems we build and run ourselves, all in production today.
- Own model
Egyptian-Arabic lecture ASR
drone-transcripter-v1 — our own speech-recognition model, built for Egyptian-Arabic lecture audio rather than Modern Standard Arabic.
12.7% word error rate - AI
AI grading of written answers
Free-text exam answers are graded against the teacher’s rubric, built on Google Gemini. Teachers review instead of marking from scratch.
6,500+ answers graded by AI - AI
AI exam extraction
Teachers upload an existing exam paper and get structured questions back, built on Google Gemini.
- Offline
Encrypted offline video
Students on weak or metered connections download lectures in the background; files stay encrypted on the device.
- Desktop + Android
Pen-capture whiteboard
A whiteboard app for teachers on desktop and Android that records handwriting as they explain.
- Pipeline
Video compression pipeline
Lecture recordings are compressed before upload, so teachers ship smaller files and students stream less data.
Infrastructure & tools we run on
- Cloudflare
- Google Gemini
- DeepSeek
- Backblaze B2
- Vercel
- Built with Claude Code
Where credits go
We are bootstrapped. Cloud and AI credits go straight into inference and compute for the next three things we are building.
- 01
AI grading for every teacher
Take AI grading of written answers from the teachers using it today to every teacher on the platform.
- 02
Transcription at scale
Run drone-transcripter-v1 across every lecture we host, so every lesson becomes searchable text.
- 03
An Arabic-first AI tutor
A tutor that answers students in Egyptian Arabic, grounded in their own teacher’s lectures and exams.
Partners, programs and press
Get in touch
Questions, data requests or a walkthrough of the product — write to us any time.
- Headquarters
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Founded
- 2025
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
- Students
- 8,500+